Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services

The Office of Library and Information Services (OLIS), in partnership with the State Archives and the museum community in the state will define and inventory the universe of RI Heritage collections; adapt the Northeast Document Conservation Center’s “dPlan: the Online Disaster Planning Tool” to fit the Rhode Island circumstance; convene stakeholders to adopt dPlan as the state’s standard and define a series of response networks; train stakeholders in dPlan; and publicize the result of the planning process among state and local emergency management agencies, first responders, and heritage stakeholders. A steering committee will include representative of libraries, archives, museums, municipalities, historical and preservation societies, courts, the State Risk Manager, and the RI Emergency Management Agency.